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− | '''Boy Scouts are for spanking''' was a campaign launched by [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?act=idx Wikipedia Review] against Wikia, Inc. (and by extension, it's affiliated non-profit projects, Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimedia Foundation) for hosting a pornographic 'spanking website' displaying images of naked children, of children being spanked or subjected to violent acts. The campaign provoked a storm of opposition from the wiki-based 'free culture' community, and led to one Wikipedia Review member being permanently banned from Wikipedia. | + | '''Boy Scouts are for spanking''' was a campaign launched by [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?act=idx Wikipedia Review] against Wikia, Inc. (and by extension, its affiliated non-profit projects, Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimedia Foundation) for hosting a pornographic 'spanking website' displaying images of naked children, of children being spanked or subjected to violent acts. The campaign provoked a storm of opposition from the wiki-based 'free culture' community, and led to one Wikipedia Review member being permanently banned from Wikipedia. |
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| However, the campaign was ultimately successful, with the site being taken down from Wikia.com at the end of January 2008 and hosted elsewhere. | | However, the campaign was ultimately successful, with the site being taken down from Wikia.com at the end of January 2008 and hosted elsewhere. |